VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

This is done by enriching transaction data points such as name, email address, and billing and shipping address with around 2,000 extra data points, such as an IP latency check to measure the real distance from the user, IP connection type, distance between key strokes, and email name match. All key technologies for autonomous driving.

Artificial Inteligence 122

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Great lifestyle, great cost of living, motivated people and only the crap weather on the negative side. Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference. There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. The business leaders need to do their parts.

Seattle 317

Seattle Silicon Valley Technical Review Los Angeles 317

The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

We are the most active Twitter country in the world (measured by tweets per account) and the third most socially networked. Think of Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon), Guido van Rossem (founder of Python programming language and senior engineer at Dropbox) or the more senior Gerard Kleisterlee (chairman of Vodafone). Serious talent.

Netherlands 143

Netherlands Technical Review Stock Silicon Valley 143

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

I mean, you don’t have to build an actual business—you can just mimic the movements and demonstrate something that looks like a startup on paper, without any of the necessary risk taking, lessons learned or even a fraction of the effort—all the stuff that investors like to see. No revenues, no costs.

New York 116

New York CTO Hire Technical Review New York City 116

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

My belief is that these lean startups will achieve dramatically lower development costs, faster time to market, and higher quality products in the years to come. For example, one angel investor reportedly invested in several hundred social networking ventures employing this philosophy. Otherwise it's a great idea.

Lean 168

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Another assumption is that you’ve actually conducted due diligence on your own business, and these are the areas of your team, financials, your competition, your IP, market trends, because the best pitches I’ve ever delivered were when investors were raising their hands and asking me questions about, “How is your IP protected?”

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60